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JOHN D. THOKPE, 74 WEST FOURTH STREET. 

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DES MOINES COLLEGE. 



LOCATED AT 



WESTPOINT, LEE CO, IOWA. 

FOR THE COLLEGIATE YEAR 1856-7. 



CINCINNATI: 

JOHN D. THORPE, 74 WEST FOURTH STREET. 

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BOAKD OF TRUSTEES 



WM. ALEXAXDEE, Esq., 


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Iowa. 


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Hon. E. p. LOWE, 


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G. G. LAW, 


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Col. WM. PATTEESO]^-, 


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Dr. JOEL C. WALKEE, 


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OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 



Eev. SALM0:N" COWLES, 
Col. JOHX W00D3IAX, 
EOBEET MOODEY, 
WM. C. CUi^mNGHAM, 



President. 

Eecording Secretary. 
Corresponding Secretary. 
Treasurer. 



INSTRUCTOKS 



Eev. W. C. HOLLYDAY, 

Principal, and Professor of Mathematics, Natural, Mental 
and Moral Science. 



Teacher of Greek and Latin Languages. 

MES. ISr. A. HOLLYDAY, 

Principal of Primary Department. 

M:^S. E. MAETIjST, of Canonsbijrg, Pa., 

Teacher of Music on Piano and Melodeon. 



STUDENTS 



MALES 


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Besidences. 




Gustavns Salmon, . 


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Warren L. Perdew, 




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Ephraim Cooj)er, 




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Samuel S. Moodey, 


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Names. 

Samuel H. Xinney, 
J. F. E. Kinney, 
Brockway Kinney, 
William Davis, 
Brice llcCoy, 
J. C. McElroy, 
O. G-. Sargeant, 
O. E. Stewart, 
Abram Mills, 
Luther Sharer, 



Residences. 

Fort Madison, Iowa. 



Franklin, ** 

Cumberland Yalley, Pa. 
Archer, ]^. T. 
Camargo, Iowa. 
Middletown, Iowa. 
Keosaukwa, ** 
New London, " 



Mary J. Sawyer, 
Emeline S. Fletcher, 
Harriet N. "Woodman, 
Mary R. Woodman, 
Anna Price, 
Mary A. Laird, 
Rebecca Jane Keller, 
Nancy Young, 
Sarah Cunningham, 
Mary E. Valiant, 
Elizabeth Cooper, 
Mahala D. Cooper, 
Rosanna J. Cooper, 
Mary G-ibbs, 
Kate Dunn Barton, 
Hannah Robertson, 
Eliza Gilbert, 
Mary Dougherty, 
Ruby A. Mason, 
Maryette Yanhyning, 
Sophia Barnes, 
Sabina Martin, 
Theresa Salmon, 
Amanda L. Hodges, 
Josephine E. Newcomb, 
Josephine Wilson, 
Jenny Newell, 



FEMALES. 

Lee County, Iowa. 



Westpoint, 



Reed's Landing, M. T. 
Primrose, Iowa. 

Westpoint, " 



Iranistan, *' 
Bloomfield, ** 
Panna, 111. 
Westpoint, Iowa. 



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Names. 

Nannie Porter, 
Eosa M. Salmon, 
Elitha J. Valiant, 
Ann ]\iaria Yaliant, 
Sarah J. Casey, 
Mary Cheeseman, 



Besidences. 

Westpoint, Iowa. 



Missouri. 
Burlington, Iowa. 



No. of Males in Attendance, 
No. of Females in Attendance, 



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33 



Whole No. in Attendance, during the Tear, . 70 



COUESE OF STUDIES 



PREPAKATORY DEPAKTMENT. 

Eeading, daily, in the Scriptures and IMcG-uffey's Eeaders 
Penmanship; Aritlinietic, (Eay's); English Grrammar, (Bui 
lion's); Geography, (Cornell's); Willson's American History 
Book-Keeping ; Bullion's Latin Grammar and Eeader; Bui 
lion's Greek Grammar and Eeader; Caesar's Commentaries 
Yirgil's ^nead; Greek Testament; Davies' Algebra; Biblical 
Antiquities; Spelling and Defining; Composition and Decla- 
mation. 



COLLEGIATE COURSE 



FRESHMAN YEAR. 

Greek Testament. 

Sallust. 

Cicero's Orations. 

Xenoj^hon's Anabasis and Memorabilia. 

Eoman Antiquities. 

Algebra. 

Geometry, (Davies' Legendre). 

Arithmetic, (reviewed). 

Elocution and English Composition. 

Evidences of Christianity, (Alexander) 



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SOPHOMORE YEAR. 

Grreek Testament. 

Thucydides. Greek Exercises. 

Homer's Illiad and Odyssey. 

Horace's Odes and Satires. 

Plane Trigonometry and Applications. 

Grecian Antiquities, 

Campbell's Khetoric. 

Modern History. 

Solid and Spherical Trigonometry, with Applications. 

German Language. 

Biblical Antiquities. 



JUNIOR YEAR. 

Greek Testament. 

Demosthenes' De Corona. 

Horace, (completed). 

Olmstead's Natural Philosophy, (1st and 2d vols.) 

Mental Philosophy, (Abercrombie and Brown). 

Elements of Moral Science, (Wayland). 

Coming's Physiology. 

Chemistry, (Foster and Jones). 

Astronomy. 

German Language. 



SENIOR YEAR. 

Greek Testament. 

Nordheimer's Hebrew Grammar and Christomathy. 
Hebrew Bible. 
Whately's Logic. 
Analogy of Eeligion, (Butler). 
Geology and Mineralogy. 
. Botany. 

Political Economy. 
International Law. 
Constitution of United States, (Story). 



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PREPARATORY COURSE OF STUDY. 

IN THE 

FEMALE DEPAKTMENT. 

Reading, daily, in the Scrij)tures ; Penmanship ; Arithme- 
tic; Bullion's English Grammar; Geography; Willson's Amer- 
ican History; Composition. 

COLLEGIATE -FIBST YEAR. 

Reading the Scriptures. 

Latin Grammar and Reader. 

Sallust. 

Coming's Physiology. 

Davies' Algebra. ^ 

Greek Grammar and Reader, (Bullion). 

Botany. 

Parker's Aids to Composition. 

Roman Antiquities. 

Greek Testament. 

SECOND YEAR. 

Greek Testament. 

Xenophon's Anabasis. 

Latin, (Yirgil). 

Geometry, (Legendre), 

Modern and Ancient History. 

Trigonometry, with Applications. 

Natural Philosophy. 

Rhetoric. 

Grecian Antiquities. 

Evidences of Christianity. 

THIRD YEAR, 

Greek Testament. 
Cicero De Amicitia. 
Chemistry. 
Moral Science. 



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Mental Philosophy. 

Astronomy, 
Biblical Antiquities. 
Evidences of Christianity. 

FOUKTH YEAR. 

Greek Testament. 
Analogy of Eeligion. 
Whately's Logic. 
Geology and Mineralogy. 
Political Economy. 
Constitution of United States. 



^ EXTRA STUDIES. 

Music on the Piano and Melodeon. 
Drawing and Painting. 



SESSIONS OF STUDY. 

The Collegiate Year is divided into Three Sessions, of 
Thirteen Weeks each. The Pirst will commence on the 
First Monday in September; the Second will commence 
immediately on the termination of the First; the Third 
will commence on the Second Monday in April. 



TERMS OF TUITION PER SESSION. 

Elementary Branches, per Session, .... $4-00 

Katural and Mental Sciences, 5-00 

Languages and Higher Mathematics, . . . 7-00 

Incidental Fee for Fuel, etc., 50 

Music on Piano and Melodeon, .... 10-00 
Use of Instrument, • . . 2-00 

ISTo student received for less than one-half of any term ; 
and the highest branch studied determines the grade of 
Tuition. Tuition and Incidental Fee are required to be 
paid in advance, unless by special arrangement with the 
Principal. 



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ISTo deduction will be made for absence, unless in case 
of sickness or by special agreement. It is of very great 
Importance that each student should be present at the be- 
ginning of each session and continue until the close. 

TERMS OF ADMISSIONT. 

Evidence of good moral character is required, in order 
to obtain admittance into this institution or continuance 
therein. Students received at any time, and assigned their 
place in the class for which they are prepared. 

EXPENSES. 

Boarding can be had, in good families, at from SI" 50 
to $2-00 per week. If any j^i^efer to board themselves, 
they can do so at from 50 cents to $1-00 per week. — 
Board and Lodging can be had, in the family of the 
Principal, for $2-00 per week — one half the amount for 
a session being paid in advance. 

The Principal, with all the teachers, live in the Col- 
lege building; and those j)ut under their care will be re- 
garded with constant watchfulness, and will be considered 
and treated, for the time, as members of his family. All 
such will be required to maintain good order and be pres- 
ent at family worship, morning and evening, and attend 
public worship with the family, on the Sabbath, unless a 
preference is expressed to attend another church. 

LITERARY SOCIETY. 

There is a Literary Society which has lately been formed 
by the young men in the College, styled the " Union Lit- 
erary Society, of Des Moines College," which is now in a 
prosperous condition. Its object is improvement in Com- 
position, Declamation and Forensic Disputation. They have 
made a beginning toward collecting a Library. Donations, 
in useful books or money, made to this Society, would be 
received as a great favor, and would be a great advan- 
tage to the young men. 



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THE COLLEGE LIBRARY AN"D APPARATUS. 

The College Library is not large; but contains a con- 
siderable number of rare and valuable books, to which the 
students have access, by paying a small fee. The Appa- 
ratus is sufficient to illustrate all the most important prin- 
ciples of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. 

GOVERI^MENT. 

The Government will be mild and parental, and con- 
ducted by an appeal to the conscience. If this fails with 
any, they will be sent away with as little notoriety as 
possible; except in extreme cases. 

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. 

The exercises of each day are opened with reading the 
Scriptures and prayer. Instruction is also given in the 
Bible on the Sabbath day, and preaching in the College 
Hall; and, while nothing sectarian will be taught, yet the 
great principles of the Gospel will be fully presented. 

LOCATION. 

Des Moines College is beautifully situated, in the village 
of Westpoint, Lee County, Iowa, and is ten miles west of 
Fort Madison, with which it is connected, by stage, six 
days in the week. The village is particularly noted for 
its healthfulness. Ague is unknown, except by imported 
cases. 

GRATUITOUS INSTRUCTION. 

One young man from each Presbytery in the State of 
Iowa, who may have the ministry in view, as his future 
profession, and who may come properly recommended, will 
be allowed tuition free. 

APPLICATIONS FOR TEACHERS. 

Applications for well qualified teachers will receive prompt 
attention. 



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A PARTIAL COURSE. 

Those who cannot take the full course, may enter the 
regular classes in any branch, and enjoy the facilities for 
improvement possessed by such classes. To those desiring 
it, upon leaving the College a certificate of attainments 
and standing will be issued. 

ABSTRACT OF PLAN OF ENDOWMEI^T*. 

Thirty dollars paid shall entitle the subscriber to the 
tuition of one scholar, for three years, in any department 
of the College. 

Fifty dollars paid shall entitle the subscriber t© the 
tuition of one scholar during the entire courl^of six years. 

One hundred dollars paid shall entitle the subscriber to 
a family scholarship; that is, the tuition of one student 
at a time, for the entire course, and for the entire family 

Two hundred and fifty dollars paid shall entitle the sub- 
scriber to a perpetual scholarship for one student at a time, 
and which shall be transferable or devisable as other property. 

All students admitted on any of the above-named schol- 
arships shall be subject to the regulations and discipline 
of the College, in all respects, as other students. 

REMARKS. 

It is the design of the present teachers to meet the 
wants of the friends of education. The age and advance- 
ment of those received in the Preparatory Department is 
left to the judgment of parents and guardians. 

In the College proper, they should, as a general rule, 
be fourteen years of age, and capable of entering on the 
studies prescribed in the course. Lectures will be given 
each year, on Chemistry and its application to the Arts 
and Agriculture. Persons wishing to locate, so as to educate 
their families, we invite to come to Westpoint. The situ- 
ation is one of the most healthy in Iowa. The view of 
the surrounding country is delightful. Our facilities for 
education are unsurpassed by any in' the West. Being in 
a most fruitful country, living is cheap. We have good 
churches, good markets, good land, good water, and wood 
and coal in abundance; and we should like to have many 



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more good, moral, religious and enterprising citizens wlio 
have the heart and the will to push forward the cause 
of education and religion. 



CEETIFICATE OF REV. H. IfEWELL. 

Having attended the examination and exhibition of the 
students of Des Moines College, of which Eev. "W. C. Hol- 
lyday is Principal, I feel it to be my duty, as a friend 
of education, to say that it was highly creditable to both 
teachers and pupils. The examination of the more ad- 
vanced classes, such as Philosophy, Physiology, ^and the 
Latin, was j^i'olo^ged, and the ready and correct answers 
to the quesljpis proposed, fully evinced that the pupils 
had been thoroughly trained. I would further add that 
this institution of learning is located in one of the very 
best as well as the most healthy portions of the State of 
Iowa, and is deserving of liberal patronage. 

HUEY I^EWELL. 

March 30, 1857. 

A WORD TO PATRONS. 

Our every day exercises are always open to your in- 
spection. We hope you will frequently encourage us with 
your presence. Institutions of learning are often regarded, 
by the young, as places of drudgery or mere duty; but, 
when they see parents and friends taking an active inter- 
est, not only in themselves, but also in their schools, they 
regard them as places of pivilege as well as of duty. 

TO WHOM IT BELONGS. 

This institution belongs to the Presbyterian Church, and 
is under the government and control of a Board of Trus- 
tees, who are all Presbyterians, (O. S.), except one; and 
who all hold the property and funds in trust, belonging 
to said institution. 

The Charter and Constitution require all the Professors 
and Teachers to be members of the Presbyterian Church, 
(O. S.), and this is a condition upon which all its prop- 
erty and funds have been secured. 



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